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Members Area Tutorial: Create an Advanced Stone Text Effect in Photoshop

Today’s advanced tutorial will teach you how to create a realistic stone text effect from scratch in Photoshop.

You’ll learn how to create a custom bump map, and how to use this technique to distort virtually any surface. Then you will combine Layer Styles to create an authentic ancient stone texture. Finally, we will explore few simple techniques for creating fast and realistic jungle vines with leaves.

jQuery notification plugins play an important role in enhancing the usability of a website. There are so many awesome jQuery plugins out there and if you’re a beginner web developer you’ll find them very useful. Today we’ve listed 10 jQuery notification plugins and tutorials but if you want to learn more about jQuery you should definitely check out these 10 Great jQuery Pagination Plugins and Tutorials and 10 jQuery Animation Tutorials You Want To Read. Hope you’ll find them as helpful as we did!

Master Advanced Drawing in Photoshop by Creating an Old Alarm Clock From Scratch

Drawing in Photoshop can be a scary learning curve to start with. Beyond the basic shape tools there are a host of more complex features that can make the difference between an intermediate and an advanced user.

Today we’re going to explore some of these features and learn how to create a realistic alarm clock vector. This will be an entirely non-destructive process, that results in a clean, scalable vector outcome. Simply put, you’ll follow the workflow of a true professional and learn how to use Photoshop’s advanced drawing tools the right way.

Each step is carefully explained, so you should be able to follow along with ease.

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Photo Manipulate an Eerie Sea Cave Scene

Today’s tutorial will teach you how to photo manipulate an eerie sea cave, along with grim reaper boatman. You’ll learn various blending techniques, whereby you can blend multiple photos seamlessly. You’ll also learn how to create an effective depth of field as well as some cool looking light effects.

Ninite is a great website app which let you easily install multiple programs at once by opening one installer file which will download and run all the installer files which you picked to install for programs like Libreoffiice, VLC, Google Chrome, and a bunch of other programs which you checked to download and install with Ninite.

Once you checked the sites which you want to install on your computer, you click the “Get Installer Button” at the bottom of the website, and open the installer file with Windows. There is also a version of Ninite for Linux, but it has fewer programs for Linux than Windows.

Members Area Tutorial: Design a Summer Time Vacation Poster

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a surreal underwater photo manipulation that is perfect for a poster design. You’ll work with various manipulation techniques including blending, masking, creating underwater effects, complex extractions and much more.

This is a comprehensive tutorial that will teach you a range of applicable photo manipulation skills to use across your work.

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Another monthly round-up features the best of the web for march The round-up features the best design tutorials from the on-line design community, alongside some great web and design articles worth reading. I hope you enjoy the round-up and would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.